Berliner Boersenzeitung - Cannes gets steamy with strippers and sex motels

EUR -
AED 3.853118
AFN 71.487088
ALL 98.351691
AMD 409.273718
ANG 1.891004
AOA 955.659295
ARS 1055.8819
AUD 1.612967
AWG 1.8909
AZN 1.791713
BAM 1.958186
BBD 2.118481
BDT 125.382746
BGN 1.954864
BHD 0.395437
BIF 3099.635186
BMD 1.049043
BND 1.413949
BOB 7.277143
BRL 6.075321
BSD 1.049278
BTN 88.459852
BWP 14.334009
BYN 3.433683
BYR 20561.242475
BZD 2.115017
CAD 1.466756
CDF 3011.802607
CHF 0.930365
CLF 0.037034
CLP 1021.883333
CNY 7.602447
CNH 7.600206
COP 4602.760013
CRC 534.751454
CUC 1.049043
CUP 27.799639
CVE 110.399493
CZK 25.312332
DJF 186.844746
DKK 7.458245
DOP 63.237038
DZD 140.21928
EGP 52.041967
ERN 15.735645
ETB 130.835383
FJD 2.383215
FKP 0.828027
GBP 0.834471
GEL 2.874889
GGP 0.828027
GHS 16.525762
GIP 0.828027
GMD 74.48204
GNF 9042.015322
GTQ 8.10187
GYD 219.525805
HKD 8.16221
HNL 26.514301
HRK 7.483095
HTG 137.717773
HUF 409.871701
IDR 16631.527459
ILS 3.830549
IMP 0.828027
INR 88.403953
IQD 1374.474436
IRR 44138.483745
ISK 144.998255
JEP 0.828027
JMD 166.522864
JOD 0.744093
JPY 161.466076
KES 135.850881
KGS 91.045812
KHR 4211.290929
KMF 495.663583
KPW 944.138287
KRW 1468.476567
KWD 0.32278
KYD 0.874399
KZT 523.928269
LAK 23043.511793
LBP 93961.950734
LKR 305.321955
LRD 188.863681
LSL 18.970511
LTL 3.097551
LVL 0.634556
LYD 5.135256
MAD 10.541642
MDL 19.181099
MGA 4903.066576
MKD 61.374869
MMK 3407.250689
MNT 3564.648001
MOP 8.408664
MRU 41.727834
MUR 49.0118
MVR 16.217958
MWK 1819.451211
MXN 21.316857
MYR 4.670377
MZN 67.044183
NAD 18.970511
NGN 1770.238816
NIO 38.607033
NOK 11.638329
NPR 141.536123
NZD 1.79454
OMR 0.403883
PAB 1.049298
PEN 3.973941
PGK 4.22715
PHP 61.811735
PKR 291.423123
PLN 4.321649
PYG 8174.959041
QAR 3.827663
RON 4.973193
RSD 116.911696
RUB 109.267171
RWF 1432.686323
SAR 3.939045
SBD 8.79471
SCR 15.772293
SDG 630.946122
SEK 11.515901
SGD 1.411939
SHP 0.828027
SLE 23.844842
SLL 21997.91181
SOS 599.641938
SRD 37.234757
STD 21713.071748
SVC 9.181185
SYP 2635.751818
SZL 18.965104
THB 36.344126
TJS 11.185153
TMT 3.67165
TND 3.328154
TOP 2.456962
TRY 36.289233
TTD 7.126818
TWD 34.022525
TZS 2779.964489
UAH 43.543546
UGX 3887.736186
USD 1.049043
UYU 44.724485
UZS 13460.397961
VES 48.842442
VND 26666.672639
VUV 124.544491
WST 2.928499
XAF 656.769623
XAG 0.03462
XAU 0.000398
XCD 2.835091
XDR 0.802578
XOF 656.757086
XPF 119.331742
YER 262.182031
ZAR 18.932178
ZMK 9442.575435
ZMW 28.933351
ZWL 337.791413
  • RBGPF

    -0.9500

    59.24

    -1.6%

  • RYCEF

    -0.0500

    6.75

    -0.74%

  • CMSD

    0.1390

    24.599

    +0.57%

  • CMSC

    0.0878

    24.76

    +0.35%

  • BCC

    9.7900

    153.57

    +6.37%

  • GSK

    0.1600

    34.12

    +0.47%

  • SCS

    0.4550

    13.725

    +3.32%

  • RIO

    0.5250

    62.875

    +0.83%

  • JRI

    0.1400

    13.35

    +1.05%

  • RELX

    -0.2750

    46.475

    -0.59%

  • VOD

    0.1400

    8.87

    +1.58%

  • BTI

    0.1050

    37.485

    +0.28%

  • BCE

    0.0550

    26.825

    +0.21%

  • AZN

    0.4210

    66.051

    +0.64%

  • NGG

    0.0700

    63.18

    +0.11%

  • BP

    -0.4550

    29.265

    -1.55%

Cannes gets steamy with strippers and sex motels
Cannes gets steamy with strippers and sex motels / Photo: LOIC VENANCE - AFP

Cannes gets steamy with strippers and sex motels

The Cannes Film Festival took a steamy turn Wednesday as sex worker saga "Anora" wowed critics, and a red-hot Brazilian thriller set in a seedy adult motel had its world premiere.

Text size:

With the French film gathering nearing its climax, "Anora", which begins as a modern Cinderella tale about a New York erotic dancer, has emerged as a possible Palme d'Or contender.

Ani, played by Mikey Madison ("Scream"), is an escort who works at a Manhattan strip club, occasionally providing extra services for clients.

She strikes gold when a transactional affair with Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the 21-year-old son of a Russian oligarch, rapidly escalates into something more.

But when Ivan's billionaire parents hear rumours of marriage and dispatch a trio of goons to fix the situation, Ani must decide whether to cling on to her dream new life, or cooperate.

It is the latest from indie director Sean Baker who has chronicled sex workers and porn stars with previous films such as "Starlet", "Tangerine" and "Red Rocket", said there are "a million stories to be told in that world".

Having struck up friendships with many real-world sex workers through his movies, Baker said he was determined to remove the "unfair" stigma around the profession.

"It's a career, it's a job and it's one that should be respected," he said.

Sex work should be "decriminalised and not in any way regulated, because it is a sex worker's body and it is up to them to decide how they will use it", he added.

"Anora" earned rave reviews. Vanity Fair called it a "wild, profane blast" with "complex empathy", while The Guardian hailed an "amazing, full-throttle tragicomedy of romance, denial and betrayal".

It is one of 22 movies in competition for the Palme d'Or, the top prize of the Cannes Film Festival, with the winner announced Saturday by a jury led by "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig.

Current frontrunners include "Emilia Perez", a musical about a narco boss who undergoes a sex change, and "The Substance", a feminist body horror starring Demi Moore.

Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious fable "Megalopolis" has its admirers but proved sharply divisive, while Donald Trump biopic "The Apprentice" has drawn strong reviews as well as legal threats from the ex-president.

- Erotic thriller -

Premiering later on Wednesday is "Motel Destino", an erotic thriller about destiny and desire from Brazilian director and artist Karim Ainouz.

A young gangster on the run takes refuge at a neon-hued roadside sex motel, where he becomes embroiled in the lascivious lives of the couple who own it.

There was more on-screen eroticism from Italy's Paolo Sorrentino, who returned with "Parthenope", a meditation on beauty set in his native Naples and focused intensely on the figure of young actor Celeste Dalla Porta.

The director of the Oscar-winning "The Great Beauty" offered his usual lush visuals, but reviews ranged from "exquisite" (Variety) to "utterly vacuous" (The Telegraph).

With just two days left of competition entries, expectations are high for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" on Friday.

An outspoken critic of his government, Rasoulof dramatically announced he had fled the country last week after being sentenced to prison.

(B.Hartmann--BBZ)